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Cheap and effective cucumber/bean/tomato supports?
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Wed, Oct 19, 11 at 15:35
| Hi,
What is a cheap way to support pole beans, cucumbers, and tomatoes?
Thx |
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| What kind of response is that?! Those round cages are only about $1 to $1.50 most places. If you store them in a garage or shed for the winter, they should last a few years. |
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| I like bamboo. It's cheap....usually free, it's effective....used for centuries, and it's a multi-tasker. Tie 3-4 poles together at the small end to make a tepee. Weave/tie several poles together into a lattice work trellis. Tie pairs on each side of a horizontal pole and raise it like a tent. Stick a single pole in the ground and use as a stake. And when you're not using it in the garden you can use it as a fishing pole to catch something to go with all those veggies.....and the fish carcass makes good fertilizer. |
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| http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-5468-trellis-plus-5-x-60.aspx |
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| We since metal fence posts and then run wire in two strands across for permanent patches which we alternate annually with pole beans. Sometimes we bend rebar into arcs, tying them into a very attractive support. We also use bamboo for determinate tomatoes because they are shorter and bushier. We only use the cages for the high tunnel tomatoes, usually making our own out of chicken wire. Tomatoes grow 12' here, so the cages are both expensive and too short. |
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| I have been researching myself for my tomatoes. I am leaning towards the Florida weave. Here is the link, although, I do not not how it would fair with the other veggies http://www.foogod.com/~torquill/barefoot/weave.html |
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| past few years ive been using these curly poles. like a pig tail. they work good on indeterminate tomatoes, until they get to about 8-10 feet tall. then they start to lean. usually by then im about done anyways so i let them lean over. cucumbers i dont grow really, in the past i just wind them around one of those crappy tomato cages. |
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| I intersperse cucs in with corn for automatic poles. |
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| A piece of string or a bamboo stick will be helpful for cucumber/tomato support. |
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I usually just use 2x4's cut in half for stakes for the tomatoes, But after seeing the youtube video below, I am going to put together this method for my pole beans and tomatoes. its cheap and will last a long time.
Tammy
http://www.tammyinwv.blogspot.com/ |
Here is a link that might be useful: How to build a cheap trellis
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| For my beans and cukes which I have growing next to each other in my garden, I used string which I strung up to the soffit using paper clips in each hole and then tied diamond shapes between strings to help support the climbing veggies. I tried trellises and wood, but did not like they way they ended up looking like in my garden..The string that I'm using doesn't stick out like a sore thumb. And there's plenty of space to climb on. |
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